New Content Suggestion: Unreal Dungeons

[Ultimatecalibur]

A recent thread and a few reoccurring requests and complaints got me thinking. I believe I have come up with a solution that won't require a huge amount dev time to properly implement. My suggestion: Unreal Dungeons. These would be older dungeons retuned for the current max level, expect current patch gear and would have "unnerfed" mechanics similar to the Unreal trials.

I imagine a Unreal Dungeon would work like this:

• Ilevel:
  • Min - Augmented uncapped Tomestone gear/last cycle Savage gear for even patches and Normal Mode Raid/New Crafted Gear for odd patches.
  • Expected - Normal Mode Raid gear/New Crafted Gear for even patches and capped Tomestone/New Alliance Raid gear for odd patches.
  • Max - Augmented Capped Tomestone/Current Savage gear.
• Rewards - Tomestones and Faux Leaves:
  • Each boss rewards a few Leaves when killed with the final boss rewarding more.
  • A target clear time that rewards additional leaves if completed within the time limit.
  • Optional objectives depending on the dungeon. Possible examples being:
    • Optional minibosses.
    • Hostage rescue.
    • Minimized deaths.
    • Terrain usage.
    • Mechanic avoidance
  • Weekly cap of about 20 that can be farmed over multiple runs. Only 2 to 4 runs should be needed to cap. The Unreal Trial rewards would be independent of the Unreal Dungeon rewards.

A few Dungeons I think worthy of the Unreal treatment:

• Brayflox Longstop
• Sunken Temple of Qarn
• Aurum Vale
• Wanderer's Palace
• Amdapor Keep
• Pharos Sirius
• Halatali (Hard)

What are your thoughts on my new content suggestion?

[Ammokkx]

>aurum vale unreal

Sir this is the FFXIV official forum, not Satan's suggestion box.

[Bsrking5]

>aurum vale unreal

Sir this is the FFXIV official forum, not Satan's suggestion box.

What? You dont want even more mobs to fight while dodging everything

[SnowVix]

I'd suggest Sastasha get that treatment, but i'm pretty sure that's just Anamnesis Anyder

[Morningstar1337]

>aurum vale unreal

Sir this is the FFXIV official forum, not Satan's suggestion box.

But he only suggested AV and Sirius. Not Bardam's, Vault, or Aumarot (Savage) :P

[TheMightyMollusk]

The Vault Unreal. SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

A few Dungeons I think worthy of the Unreal treatment:

• Brayflox Longstop
• Sunken Temple of Qarn
  
• Aurum Vale
• Wanderer's Palace
• Amdapor Keep
• Pharos Sirius
• Halatali (Hard)

[SnowVix]

now that we've gotten our jokes about one of the suggested dungeons out of the way, this is actually really neat sounding, and would be a great way to get more to do with our endgame gear.

[Kaurhz]

LOL

People can barely tolerate dungeons taking more than 17 minutes, let alone a full-on run against mobs scaled to your actual gear. But on a serious note though, if anyone is BiS on any patch level, then the chances are the dungeon won't really sate their hunger. Dungeons aren't really something to get excited about.

I'd personally be a fan of them taking the final fight from a given raid tier, upscaling it to current BiS, and allowing people to challenge the savage encounter in its full might. Basically the Faux Hollows of savage encounters.

[Ultimatecalibur]

>aurum vale unreal

Sir this is the FFXIV official forum, not Satan's suggestion box.

I'm not suggesting that AV (Unreal) would force you to run it synced to level 47 in i47 gear. You would still have all your end game weaponskill, spells and abilities.

People are regularly complaining about dungeons not being difficult enough and their end game gear being useless.

The Vault Unreal. SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED.

Another good one.

But he only suggested AV and Sirius. Not Bardam's, Vault, or Aumarot (Savage) :P

Those would be good Unreals for 7.0 and later. It would give the player base a fair amount of time to "forget" those dungeons.

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So another vote for Aurum Vale as the first Unreal dungeon?